Achievement Guide for Golden Blob

Achievement won on 22 Jun 14TA Score for this game: 610
Posted on 22 June 14 at 16:34, Edited on 22 June 14 at 16:36

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This achievement is actually a lot easier than you'd think. There are only a few levels that are frustrating and the checkpoints are well-spaced.

The only thing that matters when getting a gold medal are the points you get from eating stuff. The bonus points you get for beating a level quickly are only for leaderboard placement. In general, you will have to eat most of the things in a level (like ~95%-ish) in order to get a gold medal.

Sadly, I don't have level-specific videos, but you probably won't need them. As long as you do a good job exploring, you should find all the blob buddies and get enough points for gold.

There are only a few levels that have tricky parts.

Desert Storm (Level 16)

In order to get the full score here, you will have to smash some of the cows. Once you know the cow trick, this level is not that bad to get gold.

- Don't hurry through a level. Take your time and make sure you get everything that can be consumed.

- You DO want to get the blob buddies, since they are worth a lot of points (1000, I believe). It was very rare that I got a gold medal without getting all the blob buddies.

- There is no score penalty for dying.

- The back button will kill your blob and send you back to your last checkpoint. This is very handy when you have the sections where you can miss a lot of blue dots (e.g., when you fall down a pipe). Just hit the back button before you hit the checkpoint to try again.

- Explore, explore, explore. Found a metal pipe? See if you can't repel off it and get to a new area. You can also squeeze through really small gaps. The game is full of hidden areas that contain things to eat or blob buddies.

- You can turn a 100 point cow into 500 points worth of hamburgers if you push it into spikes or something else that will kill it. You can also do a ground pound (jump, then B) to smash them into hamburger, though this seems to be size-dependent.

- Learn to do a high jump. On horizontal glowing pink surfaces, you can jump + repel to get some altitude, then repeat when you land to get even more height. The timing is tricky and I never fully mastered it, but it was a key to accessing a few areas as well as at least one blob buddy.